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Fort Apache is a 1948 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda. [4] [5] The film was the first of the director's "Cavalry Trilogy" and was followed by She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950), both also starring Wayne. The screenplay was inspired by James Warner Bellah 's short story ...
- $2.1 million
- Richard Hageman
- March 27, 1948
Fort Apache: Directed by John Ford. With John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz. At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe.
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- Drama, Western
- John Ford
- 1948-05-21
2nd Lt. Michael Shannon O'Rourke. Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Abdullah Abbas. ... Officer at Dance (uncredited) Danny Borzage. ... Recruit With Mustache / Accordionist at Serenade (uncredited) Cliff Clark.
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When arrogant and stubborn Civil War hero Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday (Henry Fonda) arrives in Arizona with his daughter, Philadelphia (Shirley Temple), to assume command of the Fort Apache ...
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- John Wayne
- John Ford
- Western
Thursday sends Lt. O'Rourke out with four men to bury the repair team and finish their job. When a small band of Apaches attack the repair crew, Thursday and York's company spring a trap and drive back the Apache. They then travel to a store managed by Indian Agent Silas Meacham (Grant Withers), fearing for his life.
Fort Apache was the first film in what critics now refer to as director John Ford's "Cavalry trilogy." The second film, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , was produced by Argosy Pictures and distributed by RKO in 1949, and the third, Rio Grande , was also produced by Argosy, but released by Republic Pictures in 1950 (see entries below).
Fort Apache, American western film, released in 1948, that was the first, and widely considered the best, of director John Ford’s “cavalry trilogy.” Inspired by the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), the film was unique for its time in portraying Native Americans sympathetically as victims of the
